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Re:Marc Benioff joins Valley notables backing Gaza’s first c... by justin66 on Thursday January 12, 2017 @12:14PM (#13384033)
> If you're going to argue that persecution and hatred of Jews are excusable because of X

If it seemed to you that anything I wrote intended to argue that persecution and hatred of anyone is "excusable because of X", this was rather a waste of time.

Which is of course a surprise, since discussion of the Palestinian conflict online is ordinarily so productive...

Re:Marc Benioff joins Valley notables backing Gaza’s first c... by berntb on Thursday January 12, 2017 @03:02PM (#13385604)
That was just answering a common bad argument in advance.

I wrote it INSIDE "()", AS AN EDIT. since that was the only thing you could comment on, sad...

EDIT: I used a ":-)" three comments ago as a mark of irony. Well, justin66 have no serious answer, so I end it here.

Edit 2: Justin66 seems to downvote my comments in this old discussion now, with multiple accounts... 15+ downvotes on old and new comments in 20 minutes. That is what happens when people lack both a serious argument and maturity. (Easy to find for HN mods..)

Edit 3: detaro -- The karma is irrelevant. And I should be equally ashamed as justin66 for needling whai I hope is a teenager when he have dearly held wrong opinions. Enough.

Re:Marc Benioff joins Valley notables backing Gaza’s first c... by sctb on Thursday January 12, 2017 @05:36PM (#13386813)
The guidelines ask us not to complain about downvotes in the first place, but it's definitely not OK to attack and accuse other users like this here. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Marc Benioff joins Valley notables backing Gaza’s first c... by detaro on Thursday January 12, 2017 @04:52PM (#13386465)
> Easy to find for HN mods

Then write the mods an e-mail instead of hoping they read your comments.

Re:Marc Benioff joins Valley notables backing Gaza’s first c... by justin66 on Thursday January 12, 2017 @03:36PM (#13385877)
Now that I know that not all of what you've written is meant to be taken seriously, I really have no idea what point you're trying to get across, aside from some vague pro-Israel, anti-Palestine thing. My mistake for responding to a message ending in ":-)" in the first place.
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Re:Marc Benioff joins Valley notables backing Gaza’s first c... by DanBC on Thursday January 12, 2017 @04:58PM (#13386518)
>And of course it is just a coincidence

You're getting downvotes, and flags, because you are being rude and aggressive.

Re:Marc Benioff joins Valley notables backing Gaza’s first c... by berntb on Thursday January 12, 2017 @05:34PM (#13386795)
I'll add a comment here so DanBC sees it.

You have a point, I am easily trolled when people lack arguments and start discussing person.

Regarding earlier comments... I got mainly upvotes, until an hour ago.

I have argued, a year or two ago, that this subject have to much emotional attachments and doesn't work on HN. It is twice as true today, it seems people now often have secondary accounts used for trolling when they lack answers about soemthing they find important.

Re:Marc Benioff joins Valley notables backing Gaza’s first c... by grzm on Thursday January 12, 2017 @07:25PM (#13387427)
I don't think what you're seeing is the action of secondary accounts. The tone of a number of your comments has been rude and aggressive, and the accusations of other users is also uncivil. You've been called out by a mod, and at least two other members have commented on your behavior. I've downvoted and flagged a number of your comments as well.

You may be right about the topic not being appropriate for HN. Regardless of the behavior of other members—even if you think they're trolling—it's important to be civil. Even more so when the topic is emotional. Otherwise it's just better to refrain from commenting.

Re:Marc Benioff joins Valley notables backing Gaza’s first c... by berntb on Thursday January 12, 2017 @08:45PM (#13387775)
OK, thanks. I understand that I over reacted.

I have found that I am easily trolled when I have the beginning of allergy troubles. It is better to not comment than to find out the hard way I need anti histamines.

Sorry for wasting people's time and energy.

Re:Marc Benioff joins Valley notables backing Gaza’s first c... by justin66 on Thursday January 12, 2017 @04:18PM (#13386201)
I am absolutely not in the possession of two HN accounts. It strikes me as not completely inconceivable that someone else finds your posts on this topic, which seem to represent an internal dialogue as much as an attempt to communicate, irritating.